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Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, DOS Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
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by James McGrath Morris

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After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a lost generation shaken by war.

Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly met another young writer, Ernest Hemingway, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps. When the war was over, both men knew they had to write about it; they had to give voice to what they felt about war and life.

Their friendship and collaboration developed through the peace of the 1920s and 1930s, as Hemingway's novels soared to success while Dos Passos penned the greatest antiwar novel of his generation, Three Soldiers. In war, Hemingway found adventure, women, and a cause. Dos Passos saw only oppression and futility. Their different visions eventually turned their private friendship into a bitter public fight, fueled by money, jealousy, and lust.

Rich in evocative detail -- from Paris cafes to the Austrian Alps, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West -- The Ambulance Drivers is a biography of a turbulent friendship between two of the century's greatest writers, and an illustration of how war both inspires and destroys, unites and divides.

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  • Title Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, DOS Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
  • Author James McGrath Morris
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st.
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York
  • Publication date 2017-03-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780306823831 / 0306823837
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Hemingway, Ernest - Criticism and, World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016043398
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.52

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  • Choice, 09/01/2017, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2017, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/30/2017, Page 0

About the author

James McGrath Morris is the author of four previous books, including the New York Times bestseller Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady of the Black Press, which was awarded the Benjamin Hooks National Book Prize, and the highly acclaimed Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power. He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered, PBS's News Hour, and C-Span's Book TV. A former journalist, he was the founding editor of the monthly Biographer's Craft and has served as both the executive director and president of Biographers International Organization (BIO). Morris lives in Tesuque, New Mexico.
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